Planet of Slums

Globalization & Imperialism

From the publisher:
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live int he slums of the cities of the south. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. Planet of the Slums ends with a provaocatice meditaiton of the "war on terrorism: as an incipient world war between the American empire and the new slum poor.

About the author

Mike Davis is a MacArthur fellow as well as being a social commentator, urban theorist, and sociographer, and is best known for his investigations of class structures in his native Southern California. He is the author of many books including Ecology of Fear and The Monster at Our Door.

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